New Microsoft Word for Mac resolves this issue from version 15.29.1(161215)
Finally...

Hi Jade,

A similar issue has been reported by our customers too (Balsamiq Mockups add-on).

The Word export (containing a link to a PNG image) is not displaying also in Google Docs. What do you suggest about it?

Resolving as obsolete, however Office 2016 has only been tested with Confluence 6.0.x. So while there is no fix contained in version 6.0.1, it is recommended that you upgrade to this version when you upgrade to Office 2016.

After investigation, it appears this issue has been fixed in Microsoft Office 2016. As our documentation currently lists Microsoft Office 2013 as the earliest supported version (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/office-connector-prerequisites-170493096.html) , and there is no 2013 Office for mac, it is recommended that customers upgrade to Office 2016 to resolve this issue.

Jade Giacoppo
Confluence Developer

+1 Still an issue.

4 years after the issue was reported, it would be nice to have a solution or at least a workaround for Mac... Sadly, it seems that this issue will never be fixed. 

Atlassian should treat to fix this issue as Urgent. It's a visible and highly used feature for a Wiki tool like Confluence. Our organization MAC laptops are affected.

+1. Still an issue. Please fix this bug as it really prevents Confluence from replacing other solutions that can easily export Word / PDF documentation.

+1. Still an issue.

+1. This issue has existed for years and I am surprised it gets so little attention

When is it going to be fixed?

Foolheartedly wrote a pretty extensive document in Confluence that needed to end up in Word. Lots of images. Totally borked. Very frustrating.

Since this does not work (and the ticket is that old without any action from Atlassian), but we use Word (and Office in general) regularly, there are considerations forming to ditch Confluence in favor of Sharepoint.

Hello. I see this ticket is over 3 years old now. This issue still affects at least some people, including me. Any plans to remedy? If not, please close the ticket

These feature is urgently needed.

Any news on this?

+1 to get this fixed asap. It's quite shocking that this doesn't work.

We would like to use this function, too. When will this issue be solved?

I'm also kind of astonished that this issue seems to be largely ignored. Why put a feature in your software if its this broken?

This would be a big delighter for our users. Any updates on when this fix will be released?

Can this be included in a sprint, or at least planned for a sprint in the future?

Well, be that as it may: This bug stands for a quite a while now, on multiple platforms, and there is no workaround!

Maybe Atlassian could start to actually work on finding a solution?

The assignees are only assigned in the public tracker if they are literarily working on it now. Your complaint is fairly common but the public tracker doesn't represent all internal discourse on issues: They have a internal tracker as well.

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/110373/how-does-the-jira-team-use-jira-atlassian-com

Still a issue on 5.5.6. This is ridiculous that it is not even assigned to anyone. I thought the point of having a paid product was great support. Guess not!

Also this issue is noticed in Confluence 3.5.13 for Windows system, any workaround or alternative approach available for this issue??

We experience a slightly different, but also very severe problem:

As is well known, the exported "Word document" is no real Word document, but a multipart-MIME-file. In some (reproducable) cases, all of the following occur on one exported page:

1. the binary multipart-parts are incomplete, i.e.: many attachments are missing
2. the multipart-parts are much too short for the attachments contents
3. the multipart-boundary markers are all identical
4. all links to attachments are absolute, i.e. pointing to "/confluence/"[…] instead of the attachments, being translated to "file:///C:/confluence/"[…] by Word
5. and of course, all images are invalid therefore, like in this bug's description.

Further reference, including examples: https://support.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/14/CSP-134699

Agreed again. I really cannot understand why there's obviously no interest in fixing a comparatively simple issue/ feature.
Very very disappointing

Disappointing... Open for two years...

Same issue here, this is quite annoying as our entire office runs on Macs. Fix would be appreciated, given that it's been open for 2 years.

We are also experiencing this issue in 5.4.4, the issue affects lucid chart documents inserted in to the page using the lucid chart plugin, as well as images inserted.

Please let us know as soon as there's any progress on this issue (Reproduced in both, Win and Mac environment, Word for Windows works):
adminber@hi-res.net

I have the same issue and according to Word all images are linked to a C:\ path which OS X is unable to find.

Is there any status on a fix for this?